Taikang in context: Street-network sprawl trends
Taikang in context
The chart above shows SNDi trends for new street additions (left panel) and the entire network (right panel), with Taikang plotted against Henan and China. While Henan and China both followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase, Taikang's new street additions followed a zig-zag trend with an overall increase. Most recently, Taikang's incremental SNDi rose from 1.37 to 1.51 between 1991-2005 and 2006-2020. In terms of the aggregate network, Taikang ranked 2nd out of 129 cities in Henan and 18th out of 1843 in China as of 2020.
New Street Additions (2006–2020)
- SNDi value
- 1.51
- Rank in China
- 69th of 1843
- Rank in Henan
- 6th of 129
Entire Network (Aggregate)
- SNDi value
- 1.31
- Rank in China
- 18th of 1843
- Rank in Henan
- 2nd of 129
Rankings go from most connected to most disconnected — rank 1 is the most connected.
What about similarly populated cities?
- Suraimanpur, India
- Luanchuan, China
- Meftah, Algeria
- Pingluo, China
- Erzincan, Turkey
- Asamankese, Ghana
In new street additions, Taikang fluctuated in its street-construction patterns, while Suraimanpur built increasingly connected streets from 1975 through 1991-2005, then shifted to more disconnected patterns and Pingluo built increasingly disconnected streets from 1975 through 1976-1990, then improved. For the full network, Taikang became progressively more disconnected, while Suraimanpur became more connected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then grew more sprawly from 1991-2005 onwards and Pingluo grew more disconnected from 1975 through 1991-2005, then improved. Notably, Taikang had a more sprawly network than Pingluo in 1975 but the two have since reversed their relative ranking.